Jacket.



No. 848,669. PATBNTED APR. 2, 1907.

J. H. MARK.

JACKET.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.24,1906.

. and useful Improvement in Jackets, which the jacket is buttoned up ythev end thereof will constitute an effective an regular manner,

-part'of a usual cardigan jacket made .rows of buttons Zon the outside of the jacket l wearer to be visible,

d UNrinn vsfriiins rafrnn orion.

JACOB HOWARD MARK, OF HERKIMER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO MARK -MANlfFACTURlNG COMPANY, OF HERKIMEF., NEW YORK, A CORPORA- 'DIONY OF NEW YORK.

` JACKET.1

Specification of Letters Patent. ratenteci April 2, 1907.

Application filed March 24, 1906- Serial No. 307,815.

To JZ when, it 'mty concern: l and'fix'edly secured to the jacket, and the in- Be it know '.i that l, J Aeon HOWARD MARK, j side buttons may, if desired, be engaged with of Herkimer, New York, have invented a new l the buttonlioles of the overlapped portion the jacket when the latter is buttoned. The buttonholes are preferably reinforced and rotected by pieces 4 and the opening of the j jacket by a strip of braid 5.

l ln manufacturing the jacket herein illusinvention is fully set forth in the following I specification. l

My invention relates to knit garments having the general characteristics of cardigan jackets, and has for its object to provide l trated the portion of material that ordinarily such a garment with a collar which may be constitutes the'collar is-,cut away, the configcheaply and expeditiously manufactured and attached to the jacket, which may be worn in a turned-down position, when it constitutes a sightly-rolled collar, or worn in a turned-up j position, when it protects vthe throat in the same manner as does-the usual sweater-neck, and, further ,to provide such a collar that when portions d effifthe cut being indicated by the dotted line 6 in Fig. and in 'its place is secured .collar 7, which is attached to the jacket in any suitable or desired manner. This collar consists of a piece of woven fabric, Asuch as knit material, but preferably l use a `tubular piece of seamless ribbed sweaterj neck material which is 'knit on the usual j necking-machine, the ribs of said piece runcient chest-protector. These objects are atning longitudinally of the collar. As inditained lby suitably securing to the jacket in j cated in the present embodiment, the collar place of the ordinary collar a strip of the usual 7 is secured to the neck portion of the jacket sweater-neck material (preferably a continuby stitches 8, passing through the body of the ous piece) of substantially equal.. width y jacket and braid 5. The ends 9 of the collar throughout,` the end portions of said strip eX- are preferably extended down the face of the tending down the face of the jacket avsuitable jacket, the inner edges l() of these end pordistance. tions being also suit ably secured to the jacket, l The invention will be better understood by as by sewing-stitches. Extending the end relerence to the accompanying drawings, i portions of the collar down the face of the lw erein-- Figure l shows a perspective view illustrating a jacket with the improved collar shown in its turned-downposition. Fig. 2 is a view showing the collar in its turned-up position. Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing jin dotted lines in Figs. l and 2, and an addia portion of the inside of a jacket with the collar fixed thereto; and Fig. fi is a transtional protection to the chest of the wearer verse sectional view through the collar, illusi is afforded.

lt will therefore be seen' that l. have protrating the 'method of affixing the same to j the jacket.

to the drawings, i is the body4 in the l vided a garment which embodies the desirthe jacket herein illustrated j able features of both a jacket and a sweater,

Referring being of the double-breasted type with two jacket a suitable distance not only permits the collar to be'more iixedly secured to the jacket, but when the jacket is buttoned up and two row-s of buttons 3 on the inside of the j pearance,

jacket. Preferably there is an equal number of buttons both inside and outside, the the usual sweater by reason of the collar sameA being secured together in pairs by j when turned up falling closely and snugly thread passing through the material of the x around the neck jacket. The buttons are thus effectively over the head of the wearer.

these end portions rest side by side, as shown y does not have to be slipped while embodying all the desirable features of VVha-t is claimed is In testimony whereof have signed this A body-garment having a roll-collar of I specification in ,the presence of two subscribe.

substantially the same Width throughout l ing Witnesses. formed of a tubular seamelss piece of ribbed JACOB HOWARD MARK. 5 material secured to said garment, said collar Witnesses: in its turned-up position overlapping Aand C.' LE ROY YALE, protecting the throat ofthe wearer. n y S. T. VILSON. 

